Mccain Meets The Daddy

September 3, 2008

CNN just carried live footage of John McCain's arrival at the MSP airport,
featuring an extraordinary photo-op meeting with the Palin family, including
Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's unborn child. With the Palins and
Johnston standing in a sort of receiving line on the barren tarmac, McCain
lingered for a serious-seeming talk with the expecting father, which included
many firm claps on the shoulder and a vigorous two-handed handshake. It
broadcast a kind of man-to-man demonstration of respect, which is probably the
politically effective thing but it made for an extremely weird tableau.